Updating DDB0 inside aic94xx driver itself caused SMP command timeout. I hit this SMP timeout problem twice but I am not able to reproduce it since then. Here is a fix that retries an SMP command. igned-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -r 42e5e02e2d2d drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c Wed Oct 04 10:04:48 2006 -0700 +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c Wed Oct 04 13:43:34 2006 -0700 @@ -71,55 +71,65 @@ static int smp_execute_task(struct domai static int smp_execute_task(struct domain_device *dev, void *req, int req_size, void *resp, int resp_size) { - int res; - struct sas_task *task = sas_alloc_task(GFP_KERNEL); + int res, retry; + struct sas_task *task = NULL; struct sas_internal *i = to_sas_internal(dev->port->ha->core.shost->transportt); - if (!task) - return -ENOMEM; - - task->dev = dev; - task->task_proto = dev->tproto; - sg_init_one(&task->smp_task.smp_req, req, req_size); - sg_init_one(&task->smp_task.smp_resp, resp, resp_size); - - task->task_done = smp_task_done; - - task->timer.data = (unsigned long) task; - task->timer.function = smp_task_timedout; - task->timer.expires = jiffies + SMP_TIMEOUT*HZ; - add_timer(&task->timer); - - res = i->dft->lldd_execute_task(task, 1, GFP_KERNEL); - - if (res) { - del_timer(&task->timer); - SAS_DPRINTK("executing SMP task failed:%d\n", res); - goto ex_err; - } - - wait_for_completion(&task->completion); - res = -ETASK; - if ((task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_ABORTED)) { - SAS_DPRINTK("smp task timed out or aborted\n"); - i->dft->lldd_abort_task(task); - if (!(task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE)) { - SAS_DPRINTK("SMP task aborted and not done\n"); + for (retry = 0; retry < 3; retry++) { + task = sas_alloc_task(GFP_KERNEL); + if (!task) + return -ENOMEM; + + task->dev = dev; + task->task_proto = dev->tproto; + sg_init_one(&task->smp_task.smp_req, req, req_size); + sg_init_one(&task->smp_task.smp_resp, resp, resp_size); + + task->task_done = smp_task_done; + + task->timer.data = (unsigned long) task; + task->timer.function = smp_task_timedout; + task->timer.expires = jiffies + SMP_TIMEOUT*HZ; + add_timer(&task->timer); + + res = i->dft->lldd_execute_task(task, 1, GFP_KERNEL); + + if (res) { + del_timer(&task->timer); + SAS_DPRINTK("executing SMP task failed:%d\n", res); goto ex_err; } - } - if (task->task_status.resp == SAS_TASK_COMPLETE && - task->task_status.stat == SAM_GOOD) - res = 0; - else - SAS_DPRINTK("%s: task to dev %016llx response: 0x%x " - "status 0x%x\n", __FUNCTION__, - SAS_ADDR(dev->sas_addr), - task->task_status.resp, - task->task_status.stat); + + wait_for_completion(&task->completion); + res = -ETASK; + if ((task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_ABORTED)) { + SAS_DPRINTK("smp task timed out or aborted\n"); + i->dft->lldd_abort_task(task); + if (!(task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE)) { + SAS_DPRINTK("SMP task aborted and not done\n"); + goto ex_err; + } + } + if (task->task_status.resp == SAS_TASK_COMPLETE && + task->task_status.stat == SAM_GOOD) { + res = 0; + break; + } else { + SAS_DPRINTK("%s: task to dev %016llx response: 0x%x " + "status 0x%x\n", __FUNCTION__, + SAS_ADDR(dev->sas_addr), + task->task_status.resp, + task->task_status.stat); + sas_free_task(task); + task = NULL; + } + } ex_err: - sas_free_task(task); + BUG_ON(retry == 3 && task != NULL); + if (task != NULL) { + sas_free_task(task); + } return res; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html